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Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

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Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

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Post by boothby »

When the early adopters start pushing neural implants they'll be ad-free. Not long after your boss insists that everybody needs neural implants for the sake of productivity, they'll be ad-supported but moneyed developers will be able to opt out. The terms of the ad-free service will continue shifting, so nothing is ever really ad-free for long, and ads for better neural implants are promotions not ads right? But y'all are working on neural implants because if you don't, somebody else will, aren't you

Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

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Post by p4bl0 »

mwalser wrote: post #27
shevy-java wrote: post #5

We need ublock origin EVERYWHERE. I actually wrote this before on reddit, before I eventually left reddit due to the censorship. KDE changed a lot and Nate asked for donations via a daemon. I pointed out that we now need to undo pester-ads added by KDE developers. Lo and behold, I was cancelled on #kde reddit. I still think we need something like ublock origin but for EVERYTHING, not just the browser. ublock origin i…

I'm using KDE as my daily driver and haven't noticed any ads so far. Where can I find these pester-ads?

The notification only exists since Plasma 6.2 (august 2024) [1]. Maybe some Linux distribution disable it?

[1] https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-i...

Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

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Post by bakugo »

On one hand, I hate how much of a hype-driven commercial product Laravel is, and how many novice developers learn bad practices from its awful architecture.

On the other hand, this "problem" only affects vibe coders who weren't writing any code themselves anyway, so I say let them suffer.

Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

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Post by master-lincoln »

mwalser wrote: post #27
shevy-java wrote: post #5

We need ublock origin EVERYWHERE. I actually wrote this before on reddit, before I eventually left reddit due to the censorship. KDE changed a lot and Nate asked for donations via a daemon. I pointed out that we now need to undo pester-ads added by KDE developers. Lo and behold, I was cancelled on #kde reddit. I still think we need something like ublock origin but for EVERYTHING, not just the browser. ublock origin i…

I'm using KDE as my daily driver and haven't noticed any ads so far. Where can I find these pester-ads?

I guess they mean this https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...

Re: Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

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Post by hiccuphippo »

monooso wrote: post #14
ceejayoz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/1534178479201259520 I really don't think he's hurting for funds.

The headline wasn't "Taylor Otwell bought a Lambo in 2022 and now injects ads...". VCs typically want a return on their 57 million dollar investment.

And that's the start of the enshittification.
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